主创设计师Akshat Bhatt表示：“利用被遗忘的事物并赋予它新生命是有趣的：这是回收利用的时代。不断生产新事物的空间、森林和水不再充足，因此利用旧事物并让它变得特别吧。”基于这种想法，位于新德里中心地带奥赫拉的Rug Republic总部的设计回应了工业环境，形成一份我们给城市带来什么的控诉。业主的要求是以有限的预算和最小的干预使现有的破旧建筑再次投入使用，因此设计师着重修复可用空间，清除布局的临时变动并拆除前住户所做的楼层改造。

“It’s fascinating to take something forgotten and to give it new life: This is the century of recuperation. There is no space, no forests, no water anymore for continuous production of new things. So, take something old and make it special.” says Akshat Bhatt, Principal Architect. Emerging from this thought, the design of the Rug Republic headquarters in Okhla, in the heart of New Delhi is a reaction to its industrial setting: an indictment of what we have brought our cities to. The brief presented by the client was to make the existing dilapidated building usable again, within a limited budget and with minimal interventions. Hence, a great emphasis has been placed on reclaiming the usable spaces, by undoing ad-hoc alterations in the building’s spatial layout and removing layers of the flooring that was done by its previous occupants.

▼项目鸟瞰，aerial view of the project © Architecture Discipline

变压器抽头般的外观是设计师对仓库的重新诠释，这种表达源于他对周围环境的理解及其带来的挑战。奥赫拉周围环境恶劣，设计师将其看做战区，利用金属外壳包裹在结构周围，保护内部免受恶劣环境的影响，从而使一座内向型建筑在基地毫无趣味的工业天际线中找的了合理性。此外，基地附近猴子产生的刺鼻气味和喧闹声要求该项目区别于传统的玻璃建筑，避免立面出现大面积开窗。外立面采用耐候钢材质的曲面，与外界保持视觉联系。网链透过少量的日光并防止猴子进入室内。一层入口旁采用易于维护且坚固的切面花岗岩。

The design, a weeping transformer, is a reinterpretation of an expression of warehouses that emerges out of the architect’s understanding of the physical context and the challenges it posed. By equating Okhla to a war zone, a metal shell has been enveloped around the structure to protect the interiors from the hostile and acrid environment. An inward-looking building, therefore, finds its justification in the site’s industrial skyline that offers nothing of visual interest at eye levels. Furthermore, acrid air quality and ruckus created by the monkeys in the neighbourhood demanded a deviation from the conventional glass architecture and prevented large openings on the facade. On the exterior facade, a visual connection to the outside has been maintained using controlled apertures crafted in corten steel. The jaali allows minimal daylight to penetrate within and prevent monkeys from entering the premises. However, on the lower floor near the entrance, split-face granite stones have been used for their ease of maintenance and rigidity.

▼封闭的耐候钢外壳，the closed shell crafted in corten steel © Architecture Discipline

▼入口旁采用花岗岩，the granite stones have been used near the entrance © Architecture Discipline

▼表皮细部，details of the surface © Architecture Discipline